The veteran's schizophrenia is rated at 50% disabling, his bilateral hearing loss at 10% disabling, and his left knee disability at 20% disabling. The appeals for increased evaluations are granted.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports the current ratings based on the severity of each condition as defined by VA's rating criteria.
- Claimed conditions
- Residual type schizophrenic reaction, Bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, Residuals of a left knee meniscectomy with degenerative joint disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- May 7, 2001
- Citation
- 0112861
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, finding that the Veteran's most recent claim was filed on May 23, 2017.
- Granted
The Board granted a disability rating of 20 percent but no higher for the Veteran's bilateral sensorineural hearing loss.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for a bilateral sensorineural hearing loss disability as the evidence did not support that it began during active service or manifested to a compensable degree within the first post-service year, or was otherwise related to an in-service injury or disease.
- Denied
The Board denied a compensable rating for the Veteran's bilateral sensorineural hearing loss based on the results of a July 2023 VA examination.
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